People
Navy taps into Microsoft's popular Flight Simulator product
Armchair jet jockeys play Microsoft Corp.'s Flight Simulator on their PCs to capture a bit of the thrill of the real thing, which replicates an actual flight experience closely enough that this week the Navy made its customized version of Flight Simulator standard issue for all student naval aviators.
Digital Government
Puerto Rico Web Site Clears Paperwork Hurdle
Puerto Rico's government World Wide Web site is up and running again, after a dispute with the State Election Commission shut down the site for the first three weeks of the year.
People
China trade and foreign workers top agenda for high-tech firms
U.S. hightech companies confront two critical problems securing new markets where they can sell their products and finding enough workers to keep producing them. Solutions to both appear to lie overseas, and the companies have charted a course for Congress to help them reach their goals.
People
Critical Bosnia communication contract up for grabs
The Army is seeking bids on the integral communications network that links U.S. forces in Bosnia with a satellitefed widearea network.
Acquisition
AT&T to continue providing South Pole link
AT&T has won a $10 million contract to connect federal workers at the South Pole with the rest of the world.
People
Embrace the new economy
As we enter 2000, perhaps the greatest challenge for all of us is to ensure that the public sector keeps pace with the social transformation it set in motion when it created and unleashed the Internet. We must embrace the fact that the communication made possible by the Internet really does change everything about how the public will expect us to organize service delivery.
Digital Government
Free speech ? or campaign contribution?
Does a hyperlink have a dollar value? Is a 'fan site' the electronic equivalent of a campaign donation? Should the Federal Election Commission attempt to regulate political campaigning on the Internet?
Digital Government
Making taxes less taxing
President Clinton and the Internal Revenue Service are working to ease the pain of tax season.
Digital Government
House GOP technology agenda: Stay out of the way
House Republican leaders have embraced technology as one of their top three issues for 2000. But House Majority Leader Dick Armey (RTexas) said it is an issue that cries out for congressional inaction.
Digital Government
Florida Gov. Bush unveils state's first e-budget
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's budget for fiscal 2000-2001 is the state's first ever in a World Wide Web-based, fully searchable format. The goal of the electronic budget is to give Florida residents greater access to the budget so they can see where every tax dollar is going, Bush said of his $49.8 billion plan.
Digital Government
Calibrating connectivity through MeasureNet
The National Institute of Standards and Technology on Friday announced a new interactive Internetbased system that it will use to provide assistance and training to certain statelevel science labs throughout the country.
Acquisition
The scope of a contract
The following question was raised by a contractor: In deciding whether an existing contract may be modified to include a new item, government contracting officers like to talk about the contract's 'scope.' What makes up the scope of a contract?
Digital Government
Power panel discusses ins and outs of e-elections
That's what a panel of skeptical academics, cheerleading industry leaders and enthusiastic elected officials agreed on when they met Jan. 20 at The Brookings Institution to discuss the issues involved with casting election ballots online.
Digital Government
Computer science reaping benefits of Clinton budget proposal
President Bill Clinton's announcement last week that he plans to request $2.2 billion for governmentfunded research includes a record increase for the National Science Foundation that would boost development of new computing and nanoscale technologies.
Acquisition
Dell's domination grows
Dell Computer Corp.'s dominance of the General Services Administration information technology schedule in fiscal 1999 reflects how procurement reform has brought about good and bad changes to the way government buys IT products and services. While the government is paying lower prices than ever for some technology, some experts question whether new buying practices carry hidden costs for agencies.
Acquisition
Privacy advocates challenge FBI cell phone tracking
Decrying the ease with which law enforcement agencies may soon be able to track cellular phones and retrieve the contents of cellular and landline phone calls, three Internet privacy organizations are asking a federal appeals court to suspend rules that would make it unnecessary to obtain search warrants to intercept phone calls.
Digital Government
Computers becoming ballot boxes
Links to Internet votingrelated World Wide Web sites, compiled by The Brookings Institution
Digital Government
Simplifying performance monitoring tools
There's a new way to monitor information systems that promises to help agencies make the systems work faster and more reliably. If done right, it'll probably save them money, too.
People